Bragg, who starts at center for the Dragons, also holds offers from Louisiana Tech, Oregon State, and ULM, but the NFL experience on Kansas’ staff made a strong impression. Kansas offensive line coach Tim Grunhard played 11 years for the Kansas City Chiefs and was named to the 1999 Pro Bowl. He also won a national championship with Notre Dame in 1988.

“I couldn’t pass up being coached by coach Grunhard,” Bragg said. “He was a center in the NFL and I can’t pass up all the knowledge he could give.”

Kansas head coach Charlie Weis also brings a wealth of NFL experience. He spent 1990-2004 as an NFL assistant, including the 2000-04 seasons as the New England Patriots’ offensive coordinator. He was also Notre Dame’s head coach from 2005-09 before spending 2010 as Kansas City’s offensive coordinator and 2011 as Florida’s offensive coordinator before getting the Kansas head coaching job.

“Coach Weis talked to my parents,” Bragg said. “He made sure they knew I was one of his kids now and I would be taken care of and they could trust him with me.”

Bragg won Co-Offensive Lineman MVP honors with Van’s Wyatt Santos at the ETSN.fm Football Recruiting Combine on May 19 at APEC training facility in Tyler.

He measured 6-foot-5, 311.2 pounds in shoes and tested very well, finishing second among 14 offensive linemen in the broad jump (8 feet, 8 1/2 inches), tied for second in bench reps at 225 pounds (20), third in the vertical jump (26 inches), tied for third in the ladder (11.00 seconds), and fourth in the 40-yard dash (5.20 seconds). He also impressed during one-on-one drills vs. defensive linemen, including Gladewater 2015 standout Daylon Mack.

Bragg has been selected by Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine as a first-team offensive lineman on the publication’s Texas high school football Super Team.

Bragg joins classmate Greg Roberts, a defensive end/linebacker, to give Nacogdoches two players in the 2014 class with at least one offer from a Big 12 school. Roberts (6-5, 200) holds a Baylor offer.

Bragg is the 12th player in East Texas’ 2014 football class to commit and 1 of 29 players with at least one Division I FBS offer.

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